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Subtractive
02:52
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I’m done with the unwritten rules, I
Refuse to shut up
I’m sick of being the wellspring
You co-opt & corrupt
All flash, no passion
Reduced to a hashtag
When it comes to the work
Preening pretenders
Soaking in splendor
Are rendered inert
I’m breaking out
‘Cause none of you know shit
It’s time for this
Subtractive synthesis
Talentless seditionist
Acid breathing basilisk
Pit friends at each other’s throats
And claim to be a pacifist
You thought I was a joke
You thought i was a layabout
But I’m the one who pulled it off
And you’re the one who faded out
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2. |
Infused With You
03:04
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I think about you when I’m not supposed to
Private thoughts, secret ops
You pervade my brain in cavalcades
Private fantasies, quiet alchemy
You got me doing laps in my brain
Like a love-fueled go cart
You’re the inevitable outcome
Of every best case flowchart
You got my heart racing
And my body sweating
Infused with you is my default setting
Locked up top
So there’s no forgetting
Infused with you is my default setting
You appear halfway through all my neural pathways
Private thoughts, secret ops
A mental oasis
Homeostasis
Private fantasies, quiet alchemy
I hinge your visage like a well-oiled joint
Your face becomes the list icon in every workplace Powerpoint
A constant stream
A waking dream
You got my thoughts in topspin
A pre-selected option
Other notions in my mind all turn to you instead
I wanna hold you in my arms and not just in my head
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3. |
Sun Shy
04:49
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dragging on throughout the day
all my strength is sapped away
i just wanna hit the hay
and stray from the waking world
but when it's dark, I come alive
all my systems come online
the night is when I energize
and rise when the day’s adjourned
i defy the nuclei that strike the sky from space
when the sun turns off we
fire up the coffee
and the synthesizers
and cubase
we stay up late
and we percolate
and we oscillate
in the lightless nightshift
we shun the sun
i’m justified
just stepping outside
in cimmerian skies
in the lightless nightshift
we shun the sun
don’t wanna dominate the world
instead, I’ll take the zoo
and party with the polar bears and the kangaroos
‘cause all the coolest critters congregate nocturnally
and I’m the coolest cat in town, so they’ve all heard of me
but let’s submerge when we converge to escape this cruel candescence
‘cause i don’t need the sun to see with bioluminescence
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4. |
False Imprisonment
03:53
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You got three more years than you deserved
When every cute joke is an overture
For a descent into psychopathy
But now I’m healing the holes where you fed off of me
I put myself
In this penitentiary
I just wish the confinement
Was solitary
Your self-constructed system
For staying the victim
Is now down one participant
I overturned the false imprisonment
Atrophied and alienated
When no good deed goes unexcoriated
All of it avoidable if I’d stayed a stranger
But I tunneled out of the torture chamber
Gain a derangement
I put myself
On emotional lockdown
It’s easier to survive
When the terror is blocked out
I subjected myself
To incarceration
Mutilated before the escape
But I’ve regenerated
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5. |
Diseased Reasoning
04:57
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I’m not nervous
I deserve it
Just one is okay
Another hit
I justify it
‘Cause I’ve had a bad day
Or I had a good day
Or it’s cold outside
Hide it from the world or be mortified
Diseased reasoning and redlined senses
Circumvent internal defenses
Caved again
And kill the shame
With another taste
Lean to function
In conjunction
With being debased
It’s just a matter of managing hurtfulness
While avoiding all reflective surfaces
I’ll stop after this one
I’ll drop this deficient
Repetitive downward slide
Right after placating the beast in my mind
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